0 a service provided by local or national government or another organization to help people who are old or ill or need support in their lives
1 any of the services provided by governments or other organizations to people with particular needs
For example, in recent years each of the three countries has developed a tendency to privatisation and decentralisation of social service provision.
Substantial financial resources have been ' earmarked ' to support new local health and social service collaborations.
We compared changes in social service expenditures with changes in income maintenance expenditures.
One social service worker, for example, characterized public health as being about 'sanitation'.
However, the increase in social service spending during 1988-91 was mostly due to an increase in housing and community development expenditure.
Some implications for the role of social service agencies are then drawn out.
There are also differences in consumption of health care and social service between the two groups.
Maternal report of physical harm has many advantages as well as disadvantages over other procedures typically used, such as identification by social service agencies.
